And that's the long and the short of it. Or, the fat and the skinny of it.

It shouldn't matter much for the Dodgers, whose recent clawing back to a one-game-over-.500 record reflects a starting rotation held together with duct tape and fishing line (not to mention an overworked bullpen). But we had a day off yesterday, following our seventh-straight series without a series loss (6-0-1 record). So go ahead, Texas, throw whatever you've got at us.

Score was 11-3 and Orel starting to sing an Alicia Keys song, badly. He and Joe Davis joked about it, then Deiter played the song in the middle of the next at bat. Made for a pretty funny moment during the broadcast.